Winter Weather Summary February 19,

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Winter Weather Summary
POSTED: February 19, 2004 7:30 a.m.


Snow and Ice in the Upper Midwest; Heavy Snow in the Colorado Mountains...


Snow will accumulate 1-3 inches in northeastern North Dakota and northernmost Minnesota today, with similar amounts on the Michigan Upper Peninsula, northern Lower Michigan, and eastward into southwest Ontario this afternoon and tonight. Just south of this corridor of snow, into central Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and into central Lower Michigan, there will be some snow and freezing rain, enough to cause slippery travel, mainly tonight. We expect any snow and ice problems to stay well north of Chicago and Milwaukee, and more than likely north of the Detroit city limits.

A storm coming out of the central Rockies will bring some heavy snow to the central Colorado mountains in the next 12-24 hours, as much as a foot. There will be 1-3 inches out into the high plains of eastern Colorado, into northern New Mexico and northern Arizona; also 1-3 inches in the Wasatch, and in southern Wyoming. There will also be 1-3 inches of new snow in the Washington Cascades, in the Bitterroots, and in the mountains of western Montana by tomorrow morning.